Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Royal secrets , political scandal and life after Norm — the not so Everage housewife-turned-megastar from Down Under gets intimate . |
| 2 | The exhibition will not only show life in Bentley during the past 150 years , but also that of Froyle , concentrating on the development of both village schools , culminating in their merger in 1986 . |
| 3 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 4 | In point of time , however , one can find the specific civilian proposition from the US Ambassador in Paris a week earlier , on 11 December , not only to extend aid to Vietnam from the President 's special $75 m. fund but also recommending direct ‘ Marshall plan ’ financing for Indo-China : which the French had tentatively asked for at the beginning of 1949 . |
| 5 | Estates Services are not only providing accommodation for AEA staff , at Harwell they also have some unofficial tenants — a family of little owls . |
| 6 | Some languages are peculiar to one region , yet intimately related to others beyond — like the 500 or so Austronesian tongues which not only link speakers in Vietnam and Cambodia with those in Fiji , Malaysia , the Philippines , Sulawesi and Borneo , but also reach out to the inland mountains of Taiwan , the North Island of New Zealand , and to the speakers of Dobu in the d'Entrecasteaux islands and of Trukese on Truk . |
| 7 | Indeed there are things which suggest that not only did vase-painting at Athens in this time move pari passu with free painting and sculpture but that the same person may sometimes have worked in more than one of the three crafts . |
| 8 | I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town . |
| 9 | They reached the great river at Old Melrose , at the foot of Lauderdale , and followed it down to Kelso , where they had made contact with Sir Simon Fraser , who was not exactly besieging Balliol in Roxburgh Castle but containing him there , with the Warden 's force , to prevent him joining Edward Plantagenet at Berwick . |
| 10 | The two-hour battle did not exactly revive memories of Croft 's professional heyday when she reached the lofty heights of world No 22 as she struggled with her serve , and produced too many errors to get into any sort of groove . |
| 11 | The quickest and least expensive was the Trans-Siberian Express , although it was a bit of a hassle for me being an American , because Americans are not easily granted visas for Russia . |
| 12 | And not just making books like Gurder 's Book of Nome . |
| 13 | The Convention not only transferred the Crown to William and Mary , but also laid down certain terms for the new rulers in the document known as the Declaration of Rights , and if the offer of the Crown was not strictly speaking conditional upon William and Mary 's acceptance of these terms , it was clear that everyone expected that they were to abide by them . |
| 14 | THE devastating flames that swept through Windsor Castle did not simply damage part of Britain 's heritage . |
| 15 | But the opposition parties demanded their return , and the king had to promise that they would not be used except defensively , not even to eject Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 16 | But on this showing they will not even beat Poland at Wembley in September , let alone collect the minimum draw in Rotterdam that they will need to come back here in 12 months . |
| 17 | Unless they pick themselves up quickly , England will not even beat Poland at Wembley in September , let alone collect the minimum draw in Rotterdam they will need to return to America in 12 months . |
| 18 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 19 | I did not even discuss terms with Wimbledon and I would have been quite happy to sign for Newcastle . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not here to steal Florian from Nicky . ’ |
| 21 | The principle of learning by doing was familiar to all supervisors , not least Käthe Fischel from Prague , one of the youngsters who was sufficiently self-possessed to be recruited for nursery chores . |
| 22 | have not yet produced recovery in America . |
| 23 | ‘ This is going to take time , ’ he said , adding that he does not yet have plans for IBM — he has to first learn the company by meeting executives , managers and employees . |
| 24 | ‘ This is going to take time , ’ he said , adding that he does not yet have plans for IBM — he has to first learn the company by meeting executives , managers and employees . |
| 25 | He does not however see Bull following ICL Plc and becoming an 80%-owned subsidiary of a Japanese company , but he would n't say how much of the equity he would allow to pass into foreign hands . |
| 26 | He does not however see Bull following ICL Plc and becoming an 80%-owned subsidiary of a Japanese company , but he would n't say how much of the equity he would allow to pass into foreign hands . |
| 27 | But despite such ribald repartee , The Joyriders appear calmly determined in the face of various , invariably logistical , hassles suffered by the handful of Scottish bands not currently claiming residence in Bellshill . |
| 28 | Janet Jackson is great , the way she dresses , she does n't just wear miniskirts like Sabrina or Sinitta , she wears trousers , baseball caps ; she 's more of a tomboy . |
| 29 | We do n't just help people in Africa . |
| 30 | Erm well I feel we have n't really done justice to Johnson . |